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 Because of it, but the Lord’s ways are strange,

And I am not to suffer; and I believe

The reason for this is that I have not lied.

I have not lied to Him in praising Him,

Nor more to you in praising what He gave me

And in his wisdom took away again.

We cannot measure what the world has lost

Until we know the gauge the builders use

Who made it. All we know about the world

For certain is that it appears to be.

And in so far as I am sure of that

So am I sure that I was once as much

As you believed and others feared I was.

I have not drugged a clamoring vanity

With lies that for a little while may seem

To sweeten truth. There was no need of that;

And God knows now that there is less than ever.